Commentary: More than medals won in women's ski jumping

12:02 AM,
Feb. 12, 2014

Written by

Christine Brennan
USA Today

They lost, but they won. That might sound strange, but it's true. The three pioneering U.S. women ski jumpers who did not win a medal Tuesday night in the inaugural Olympic women's ski jumping competition achieved victory the moment they arrived in Sochi.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, was not a fan of having women in the Olympics, but if he had met the 30 athletes competing at RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center, he would have made an exception for them. In fact, he might have let them into the Games earlier than his successors, the mean-spirited leaders of the ...